

Certainly interesting. I’d recommend you to take a look at Mistral AI (“Le Chat”), they’re a European company and far more trustworthy in terms of data security and privacy (GDPR and such) than US products. Their models are all available for self-hosting which might provide more flexibility in the future in terms of self-hosting and their web service doesn’t try to aggressively extract every data point from you (although you perhaps circumvent that with the proxy anyway). In my personal experience it’s also more likely than e.g. ChatGPT to admit when it doesn’t know something (or ask for specific data it needs) instead of making shit up, but I don’t have definitive data for that claim.
Of course I don’t know how well it works in Japanese or from Japan, if you try let me know! 🙂








One more thing I should’ve mentioned: It’s important to make a (free) account if you try it. Although they still offer a chat interface without it, that interface is then connected to one of their very small models and lacks the “Thinking” feature (same as ChatGPT’s “Reflection”). Not very useful in most cases and more of an appetizer.